Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> Font names and font filenames are quite different, in many cases, and
> it didn't seem wise to mix them up and allow the exact same form of
> the \font declaration to access either one. This could lead to
> ambiguity and confusion in the case where a filename does happen to
> be the same as a font name.
>> As for why square brackets.... why not? :) We just needed a way to
> distinguish filenames from font names, and this seemed a reasonably
> safe choice -- unlikely to be present in a real font name, and not
> usually given special treatment in TeX.
>hm, but square brackets can interfere with optional args where [] don't
nest well (tex does not treat them as delimiters as it does {}
using {} would probably have been safer or maybe () (round ones) since
afaik these are seldom used for delimiting args; or maybe just
file:somename
anyhow, if it's filename stuff i can probably just feed the [] deep down
in context to the xetex font command
will think of something
please forward to jonathan since his mailer an dmy mail server don;t
like each other -)
Hans
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